I sail in the atlantic and launch from the beach and I store my boat right next to the beach so everyone there has beach wheels to put our boats on and roll them down into the water. I used to always tie the wheels to the side cable stays with a little slack and then when I got on the front cable rig and pulled it down the wheels would slide back a little so the center of balance was a little in front of the wheels that way i coudl get traction in the sand with my feet to pull the thing around. After doing some work on the boat though, even though I didn't do anything significant enough that it should have changed the weight distribution, I cant get the boats weight to shift. Now it seems like the back of the boat is always really heavy, and when i'm on the front cables I am actually having to pull down with about 50 pounds of force so I'm losing a ton of tracting and I cant get it through thick sand by myself anymore. I tried moving the wheels even further back but it didn't help. Then i thought it might be that the mast rake is different, but it anything, it's farther forward, especially when i'm pulling on that part of the rig. Does anyone else use beach wheels? and if so, where do you find the center of balance of the boat to be?